Hair curl pin



April 1949. A. A. TARDIFF 2,466,621

HAIR CURL PIN Filed Jan. 26, 1946 IN V EN TOR.

Patented Apr. 5 1 949 HAIR CURL PIN Alma A. Tardiflr', Detroit, Mich,

assignor to Maurice Robbins, as trustee, Detroit, Mich.

Application January 26, 1946, Serial No. 643,678

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to a pin or clasp for use in dressing the hair and more particularly for setting coils of hair and has for its object to provide a form of pin or clasp which will support a curl in a much more effective manner than is possible with bobbypins or other similar types of hair curling pins such as have commonly come on the market and extensively used for such purposes.

An undesirable characteristic of such pins as heretofor used has been their tendency to exert such compressive pressure on the curl as to distort from its most desirable form during setting as by flattening or spreading the curl and such pins have usually been characterized by comparatively slight separation of the legs of the pin whereby such openings as may have been provided therebetween for receiving the hair have been elongated along the length of the pin in a manner and to an extent which holds the curl by vertical pressure above and below the same exerted on narrow areas extending radially from the center of the curl in an undesirable manner.

The spreading effect of such pins on the curl also tends to thin out the inner and outer edges of the curl in a manner promoting the presence of loose and unsightly hair at such portions and detracting from the compact and regular toroidal form of curl structure which is very desirable.

It is therefore an object of the said invention to provide a pin or clasp having loops of a character designed to receive a coil of hair in the manner referred to and to hold and maintain it in its full form without exertion of undue pressure thereon and also to embrace the inside and outside portions of the coil in a manner resisting displacement of strands of hair in one or other direction from the body of the coil of the hair.

A further object of the said invention is to provide a pin or clasp having a pair of loops in a leg thereof, said loops being of a height approximating their width to present material side wall support inwardly and outwardly of a coil of hair held therein in addition to the support above and below the hair.

A still further object is to provide a pin or clasp of the type referred to wherein one leg of the said pin is provided with two materially spaced loops, each of a height approximating its width with the side members of the said loops extending substantially vertically from the generally plane of the leg of the pin or clasp.

Still further objects or advantages additional to or subsidiary to the aforesaid objects or resulting from the construction or operation of 2 the invention as it may be carried into effect, will become apparent as the said invention is hereinafter further disclosed.

In carrying the said invention into effect, I may provide the novel construction and arrangement of elements forming a curling pin or clasp hereinafter described by way of example having ref.- erence to the accompanying drawing wherein:

Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved pin or clasp;

Figure 2 is a plan of the same showing a coil of hair held thereby; and

Figure 3 is a cross-section of the same taken on a plane indicated by the line 3-3 in Figure 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate similar parts inthe several figures of the drawing.

l8 indicates that leg of the pin or clasp which is intended to lie against the head of a user and is shown as being of arcuate form to conform to the general shape of the head and II indicates in general the other leg of the said pin or clasp which is connected to the first leg by the spring hinge l2 and is characterized by its having two loops generallynumbered l3 and I4 formed thereon and extending upwardly from the plane of the lower leg l6.

The internal dimensions of these loops call for a height approximating their width as shown so that each loop has upstanding side walls l5 and I6 extending substantially vertically of the general plane of the leg H) with the outer portion I! of the said loops of substantially semi-circular form with their uppermost portions spaced to a degree above a said lower leg l6 approximating the spacing of the side portions I5 and it of the said loops.

These loops l3 and Hi are definitely spaced apart by the intermediate member ill of the leg H connecting the side walls It of the said loops, and it is preferred that this member l8 in the closed position of the pin should rest upon and follow the curvature of the intermediate portion of the lower leg ii! of the clasp as clearly seen in Figure 1. Those portions of the leg ll of the clasp exterior to the loops l3 and I4 and numbered for identification l9 and 20 also conform to the curvature of the lower leg it and in the closed position of the clasp lie closely therealong so that the said loops I3 and it rise sharply from the said leg It whereby a coil of hair H which may be engaged thereby is not merely held between the tops of the loops and the leg it without undue pressure therebetween on the coil but is definitely held laterally in shape between the upstanding side Walls I5 and l6 of the said loops whereby straying of strands of hair inwardly or outwardly of the coil beyond the limits imposed by these side walls is definitely prevented. Thus, the hair of the coil is bridged at two points without being flattened or having radial ridges impressed thereon by the legs of the clasp and its true form is preserved to a very high and desirable degree. Furthermore, manipulation of the hair by hand within the loops of the clasp to suit the requirements of the hair dressing operation may be made without removal of the clasp from the hair and Whilst the coil is being held in position on the head by the clasp.

The differences in form of the loops in the device described are not merely matters of design but operate in the holding of the hair in a manner which is quite different from that which has been afforded by curling pins as heretofor constructed and moreover admit of a technique in hair dressing operations which provides greater facility in their performance and better eventual results.

This invention may be developed within the scope of the following claims without departing from the essential features of the said invention asit may be carried into effect and it is desired that the specification and drawing be read as being merely illustrative of a practical embodiment of the invention and not in a strictly limiting sense.

What I claim is:

.1. A curl-holding clasp of the type described, comprising upper and lower legs connected to :form a resilient hinge at one end, the upper leg having a pair of upstanding longitudinally spaced U-shaped loops formed therein. each of a height approximating the width of opening of said loops, the side walls of said loops rising substantially parallel with one another and perpendicular to the plane of said lower leg of the clasp, whereby diametrically opposite sides of a ring curl may be confined in the spaced loops with a minimum of pressure exerted thereon by the loops for retaining the initially formed round configuration of the curl.

2. A curl-holding clasp of the type described, comprising upper and lower legs connected to form a resilient hinge at one end, the upper leg having a pair of upstanding longitudinally spaced U-shaped loops formed therein, each of a height approximating the width of opening of said loops, the side walls of said loops having relatively straight leg portions rising substantially vertically from the plane of said lower leg, the adjacent legs of the two loops being connected together by a straight portion lying directly along the lower .leg of said clasp.

ALMA A. TARDIF'F.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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